After graduating from ENS Paris, Romain Alléaume has completed his PhD
at University Paris VI and ENS Cachan in 2004, on experimental quantum
cryptography with single-photon sources, he was the co-recipient of
“magazine La Recherche” scientific prize 2004. He then joined Telecom
ParisTech to coordinate of the work on QKD networks performed within
the European FP6 project SECOQC that culminated by the first
demonstration of a QKD network in Europe. Romain Alléaume co-founded
the start-up company SeQureNet in 2008, who has developped the first
commercial continous-variable QKD product, Cygnus, released in 2012. He
participated to two national projects on quantum key distribution
PROSPIQ (2006-2009) and SEQURE (2007-2010), as well as the
French-Canadian project FREQUENCY dedicated fundamental research on
quantum cryptography. Romain Alléaume then coordinated national and
european projects, with an emphasis on QKD implementation security (FP7
Q-CERT, 2008-2012) and on the optical integration of QKD in
telecommunications networks (French ANR Quantum-WDM, 2012-2015). He is
also a member of the ETSI QKD Industry Standardization Group, and an
active contributor to the international scientific and technical effort
on QKD technology, and quantum cryptography.